Unclassified.
I am not British nor am I English,
I am a member of the planet earth.
My skin is black making it hard to distinguish
That I do not belong to any specific turf.
Although my passport may say otherwise
And there may be boxes I am forced to tick.
My Continental ties are instrumental in their eyes.
Just like you, I am vulnerable to stones and sticks.
My hair may be curly and my nose may be wide
But my extremities are bound to any communal cemetery.
If you would be willing to compare a picture of our insides.
You will see that our differences are purely elementary.
Yet you are conditioned to see me as incompatible
And this misplaced backhand is something I can understand.
Even though your judgments are far from factual.
Despite our fathers demands, I will still openly shake your hand.
I may wear trainers and you may wear shoes.
You might like rock music and I might prefer rap and reggae.
My team may win today and your team may lose.
But we both will eat, sleep and excrete on that same day.
There is no significant difference between you and I.
Both our offspring will often visit our engraved names.
However this a befitting we are all disciplined to deny.
But trust me my friend, the end is all the same.
Kela Lewis-Morin
This piece was inspired by a recent conversation I had with a very close friend of mine. He was informing me about a recent survey that showed an individual of ethnic origin applied for numerous amount of jobs but was unsuccessful. The individual then altered her applications by changing her ethnicity to a native resident and the same jobs that declined her now gave her interviews and other benefits. It upset me to think that this form of prejudice still exists after all these years. I only hope that as time progresses this out dated ways of thinking will soon become non existent. I hope this piece causes no offence and that is easy to understand and relate too. Please let me know what you think 
This is really awesome!
First of all... I slow-clap you, mate. This was a very engaging piece. Well-done. I always enjoy reading social commentaries because they reveal not only the society wherein the individual lives but also of the individual himself. Have you ever read it? I think it'd make for a rather powerful spoken-word performance.
I do have a few suggestions tho in regards to grammar/composition.
And there may be boxes I am forced to tick.
My Continental ties are instrumental in their eyes.
Just like you, I am vulnerable to stones and sticks.
And there may be boxes I am forced to tick,
Since in their eyes my Continental ties are instrumental
but just like you, I am vulnerable to stones and
sticks.
You will see that our differences are purely
elementary.
Maybe it's just me not agreeing with the idea but I think 'elementary' is the wrong word. Elementary means fundamental, basic. The differences between people are not basic at all. It's in how they grew up, in what they are/were exposed to, the things that drive them and the things that haunt them, all that more. The psychology behind what makes each of us individuals is infinitely complex and can rarely be pinned down on one factor. Our biological compositions tho, well, that's more or less identical, blood, flesh, water, carbon, guts etc. I agree though to the main idea of your work. That there isn't really anything that warrants our racial prejudices. We are born, we live and we die. The rest are merely details.
But trust me my friend, the end is all the same.
But trust me my friend. In the end, you and I are the same.
All in all, good work. I really enjoyed it. Keep making people think!
Prejudice is blind. I am much more afraid of the people who take advantage of our prejudices. I think the only way to cover our blind spots is to use someone else's eyes. Self interest is a great motivator in correcting flawed thinking, or as my mother sometimes says, "it take a lot of different types of people to make the world go around."
Another noble effort. Point out to the employer that many of his customers wear "trainers" and listen to "reggae" and would be receptive to a sales person who were of their feather. Preaching readers is rarely effective.
We are all humans and practically the same. but you did not neglect that we have different likes and dislikes such as music.